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Apple A12Z Bionic vs Intel Core i9-9900K

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 81 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-9900K

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 49 %

Apple A12Z Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-9900K

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

991 pts

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,294 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,539 pts

8C / 16T · 4.70 GHz

12,812 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,351

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,650

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,798

8C / 16T · 4.70 GHz

8,182

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

1,124

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,342

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

4,718

8C / 16T · 4.70 GHz

8,779

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A12Z

1,152

Intel UHD Graphics 630

461

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i9-9900K
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i9 (81)
CPU group	Apple A12/A12X/A12Z (3)	Intel Core i 9000 (34)
Architecture	A12	Coffee Lake S Refresh
Technology	7 nm	14 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1151-2
Predecessor	Apple A10X Fusion
Successor		Intel Core i9-10900K

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i9-9900K
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Vortex 2.49 GHz	8x 3.60 - 5.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Tempest 1.59 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i9-9900K
GPU name	Apple A12Z	Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU frequency	1.13 GHz	0.35 - 1.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 512	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	64 GB
Technology	7 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q1/2020	Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i9-9900K
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	8 Neural cores @ 5 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i9-9900K
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i9-9900K
TDP	15 W	95 W
TDP (PL2)		119 W @ 28 s
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A12Z Bionic	Intel Core i9-9900K
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q1/2020	Q4/2018
Release price		650 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A12Z Bionic is 4.2 stars (85 ratings), while Intel Core i9-9900K has received 4.2 stars (106 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A12Z Bionic
8C / 8T · 2.49 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i9-9900K
8C / 16T · 3.60 - 5.00 GHz

★★★★★